3551 Verenia

Minor Planet
name=3551 Verenia
discoverer=R. Scott Dunbar
discovery_date=September 12, 1983
designations=1983 RD
category= Mars crosser, Amor II
epoch=November 26, 2005 (JD 2453700.5)
semimajor=312.998 Gm (2.092 AU)
perihelion=160.364 Gm (1.072 AU)
aphelion=465.631 Gm (3.113 AU)
eccentricity=0.488
period=1105.407 d (3.026 a)
inclination=9.513°
asc_node=173.938°
arg_peri=193.129°
mean_anomaly=116.894°
speed=19.306 km/s
dimensions=.9 km
mass=
density=
gravity=
escape_velocity=
rotation=4.93 h
spectral_class=V
abs_mag=16.8
albedo= 0.37 * [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=3551]
temperature= K

3551 Verenia is an Amor asteroid and a Mars crosser discovered in 1983 by R. Scott Dunbar. Although Verenia passed within 40 Gm of the Earth in the 20th century, it will never do so in the 21st.

ee also

* V-type asteroid
* HED meteorite
* 4 Vesta
* 4055 Magellan
* 3908 Nyx

References

* [http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/cgi-bin/get.cgi Catchall Catalog of Minor Planets]
* [http://unicorn.eis.uva.es/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo?objects:Verenia;main NeoDys ]
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* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.html JPL Horizons; telnet version is more compehensive]